Telltale Games - Sam & Max

He's the most ancient and powerful opponent they've ever faced, a hairy, bloated, pagan God - Santa Claus! With Christmas presents on the attack and carols of gunshots drowning out the bells, Sam & Max must storm the North Pole to bring down a less-than-jolly foe. Can the Freelance Police make sense of this Christmas conundrum in time to save the world's children from a holiday tainted by tears, turmoil, and Torture-Me-Elmer?

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It's the gift that keeps on giving. Sam & Max designer extraordinaire Brendan Q. Ferguson has come up with a great list of things to try on your second time through Ice Station Santa. So grab some egg-nog, put on your warm, fuzzy slippers, and curl up in front of your PC for another few hours of holiday cheer.

Note that there are great big honking spoilers below. This list is really for people who have already completed Ice Station Santa. Read them at your own risk.

In Sam & Max: Ice Station Santa, did you...

...repeatedly talk to Flint, both before and after going to the North Pole?

...talk to Max in the office before defeating the robot and after going to the North Pole?

...talk to Max on the street during the robot scene, before and after winning Jimmy’s horse, and after the exorcism?

...shoot the robot while you were on the street?

...say all the possible song lyrics to the robot before pulling his wind-up key?

...repeatedly bombard the Soda Poppers with snowballs?

...try to give Boxing Betty or the maze to the Soda Poppers?

...talk to Max outside Santa's before going down the chimney, and both before and after the exorcism?

...try to throw a snowball at an elf?

...choose all the incorrect things to make the elf cry before choosing the one about Santa?

...repeatedly knock on Santa's door?

...talk to Max in the workshop both before and after the exorcism, and during the showdown with Santa?

...talk to Max in Santa's room before and after finding the exorcism instructions, and after the Spirits appear?

...repeatedly look at the Stocking Stuffer recipient list?

...speak to the elves about the horsemen once you’d heard about them?

...sing the demon song before looking at the crate or computer? (You get a couple different choices)

...choose the song verse "at the place, you know, with the thing..."

...try to shoot Jimmy while he was on the ledge?

...try to give Jimmy the rat maze?

...choose all of Max's dialogue options with Jimmy on the ledge?

...say "Them" to Bosco more than five times?

...see the singing mariachi?

...talk to Max in Bosco's before getting his horseman?

...shoot the bug to hear his gunpowder memory?

...try to shoot Stinky or Sybil?

...give the maze to Stinky?

...give Mary Two-Teeth to Stinky?

...try to give Stinky's sock to Sybil and Lincoln?

...talk to Max in Stinky's both before and after winning trivia, and again after the exorcism?

...get all three versions of the Elmer decal, and the four other decals, and claim your mystery prize?

...shoot the Shambling Corporate Presence?

...repeatedly talk to Santa while he was on the guard tower?

...shoot the rat hole in Christmas Past?

...use Stinky’s sock on the bug in Christmas Present?

...talk to everyone in the real Stinky's diner while the bug family is there?

...talk to the bug after his family left?

...try to shoot Sam & Max of Christmas Future?

...turn the hints up to high and try not to solve puzzles no matter how obvious?

Well, did you? Tell us how it went.